I finally got an email from [email protected] .
It had a key in a zip file.
I copied the zip file from the email.
Scanned it with my anti-virus software & it was clean.
I then opened the zip file & extracted the key.
I first opened this key in notepad.
It is long & in code.
So nothing like the key on this site.
I browsed to it with the soft-xpansion activation window & selected this key.
The sharewareonsale key was also required.
This worked & the program is activated.
I just hope it is the lifetime of this version & not a 30 day trial.
The usual about doesn’t say one way or the other.
So I will see.

Installed without problem on Windows 10, 64 bits.
I have only tried the editor to change some text in a PDF, and, compared to my version of Acrobat 9 Professional, Perfect PDF 9 Editor seems more easy to use…

Well, the entertainment value of this software offering just keeps on giving.

Seriously [@– bill], again with the ZIP file, when we already explained that we have the software installed NO PROBLEM, it just won’t phone home, and Soft-Xpansion took a long time ( how many days now ? ) to respond to email ( and no, we did not need Gary to explain how to wait for an email reply ), and once I manually correlated one of their responses with the appropriate computer, email, and registration, I had it working on screen, and saw that it has no awareness of page structures, has no idea what headers and footers are, what page numbers are, it can’t even search let alone search and replace ( why am I repeating this ? ), unable to bring sophisticated intelligence to the human meaning of document contents, and only offering low-level tools and controls over PDF page elements, basically, it sucks, basically like throwing sockets, wrench, and screwdrivers at us when our goal it to plan and execute a car roadtrip cross country – hello, maps, weather, tools, fuel, food, lodging … a screwdriver helps how? Ahh, analogies …

I did not have an “approachability” challenge, no “help” needed, since I’m well versed in PDF editing, having trained US federal government agency employees how to meet Section 508 standards by reflowing PDFs for screen readers for the blind ( oh, I’m sorry, I don’t believe in throwing around braggadocio credentials, my bad ), and that was 10+ years ago, and Adobe Acrobat Pro at that time was more sophisticated than Soft-Xpansion over 10 years later, hence my immediate assessment that it sucks, please re-read my report after it finally appeared on my screen – the vendor and the software are Not Ready For Prime Time Yet, NRFPTY, Nerf Putty.

( But then, consider Microsoft Windows 10, all 12+ editions … and STILL Not Ready For Prime Time Yet, oh my ! )

I LOVE that you offer no alternative insights on the workings of the program – you couldn’t figure out a purpose and value for it either, eh?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing – well, actually, you did not explore the software, oh well, no one actually has done much of anything with the software, because it cannot actually do anything productive … though I do have a tab-delimited export of every word in a PDF book, if you want to read a book as if it were thousands of separate words in separate spreadsheet cells, thanks to Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor.

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Note that SOS posting timings have nothing to do with the actual timing of user’s and poster’s experiences and sharing, for example, we may start a post, leave it open while awaiting the software installation to register … and wait … and wait … especially for Soft-Xpansion … and never see other people’s posts that do arrive at SOS but do not appear on our own non-refreshed screen while we were in mid-post, and we may only see those earlier-arriving posts after we finish our own post, which, in the case of waiting for Soft-Xpansion, well, there may be a whole bunch of people right now STILL in mid-post awaiting a reply, and maybe we’ll see as the weeks wear on, won’t we? I can’t wait. ( SWIDT ? )

And please, Gary’s speculation about ZIP files things working smoothly for him had nothing to do with our experience of the software not phoning home, and Soft-Xpansion not replying to emails ( “yet”, as I try to remember, those email replies may be out there somewhere, and they may arrive any day now, it could happen ).

These SOS thread pages are not about me or you, and certainly not about our experiences of each other ( though I am so grateful that people who disagree about other things can agree about T-Rumputin ), but these threads are about our experience of the SOS offering.

Let’s get to that, okay?
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Yes, [@Gene],
PDFs were never meant to be edited,
they are a finished presentation format,
a printed page layout format,
if we wanted something different on the paper print out we were looking at,
we would not take an X-acto knife to the paper,
but we’d edit the original document,
and then print again.

That said, PDFs are everywhere, and so, PDF content management has evolved to where some programming teams do put some incredible sophisticated intelligence into their programs, not just OCR optical character recognition, but also visible page elements awareness, and even, get this, search and replace, oh my.

But even the “best” PDF editor has limits, and I find that even in Adobe Acrobat Pro, the easiest way for me get it to remove headers, footers, page numbers, is to actually CROP THE PAGES as if I were using a paper cutter on a printed book to get just the page contents, then, after cropping, I can perform OCR, and then connecting the sentences that crossed pages is easier to do without headers and footers and pages numbers interrupting.

I still have to cobble together parts of uncropped pages, along with parts of cropped pages, to assemble a complete epub, I use free Word-equivalent and free Calibre, and it may take all day.

I have tried on-line PDF-to-epub converters, and I have tried a variety of software PDF-to-epub, and they all suck, either creating a mess, or just converting to hundreds of pages of JPGs, as if that’s a conversion.

No one converts a scanned image to text without arduous scrutiny after the fact.

Adobe puts the OCR text underneath the original image of the text, and does not even try to recognize and convert fonts, so the PDF looks the same as the original JPG because it’s still the original JPG overlay, but hey, the text is highlightable … but if you paste that text side by side, you’ll see tons of recognition errors nonetheless.

OmniPage and others have an endless run-through asking “what about this? and what about this?” where you hand-correct, and it supposedly learns … for … hundreds … of … pages ….

Might as well retype.

Instead, I often find official epub releases of PDF books at free [ b-ok. org ], then I do not have to convert at all!

I have no idea what “Neeppa” means:

Nae Pep
Ape Pen
Pea Pen
An Peep
Nap Pee
Pan Pee
Pa Peen
Pap Nee
A En Pep

?

Just do a search for combinations of [ download Adobe CS license giveaway Acrobat Pro ], they keep migrating, and maybe Adobe as asked the web archive to eliminate executable files it scraped from [ Adobe. com ], even in the day or so since my recent discovery and share.

And my links just have spaces to prevent anything looking like a web link, so I space around :// and I space after a period, that’s all, if they fail with spaces removes, then the source may have evaporated.

So, did you find anything useful and powerful or at least functional in Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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For better clarity, should have phrased that: “swap the two blocks.”

Neeppa
Nee ppa
ppa Nee
app Nee
appNee
AppNee
[ AppNee. com ]

Oh.

… it complains about an AD blocker.

What’s an AD blocker?

I presume they mean an advertisement blocker, or Ad Blocker.

The word “advertisement” is not abbreviated as capital-A-capital-D, but just ad. or Ad. or Ad or ad.

Ad Blockers are the kind of program that permits us to filter our own views of the web, like tearing out advertising pages from our own newspaper or magazines once they arrive at our door, and the kind of thing that attention-challenged folks and others use to tame interfering and distracting noise on web pages, so they can participate in the world wide web without being triggered and distracted by anything they are not intentionally seeking, those with epilepsy, various manifestations of autism syndromes, Aspergers, and so on – yeah, some web sites do not understand that we are not going to respond to advertising anyway, so the web sites even lose referrals by blocking access to populations with comparative disabilities, even screen readers for the blind, how sad that those web sites are discriminating, and exclusionary, when all the web site has to do is participate with visitors with equivalent consideration, and promote their advertisers using neat, clean relevant, intentional text, in-line with the web site’s basic offering, see [ Quora. com ] for examples of inline text promotion, very profitable.

Are they also confusedly blocking those of us who change fonts and colors, those of us who decline to have active programming like Java, Shockwave, and Silverlight, as we read supposedly static web information?

SOS, GOTD, BDJ, and [ WinningPC. com ] are useful and functional, even with all of the browser-tuning I mention.

And of course, [ MagnetDL. com ] coupled with [ BitTorrent. com ] and [ VirusTotal. com ] – how else are folks going to get opensource distribution when their Internet connection is brief, slow, and intermittent at best?

And not just around the world unimproved remote locations, think of California US with its drilling blackouts due to fires, and the march of climate change bring such challenges to us all eventually.

Without trickling restartable torrents, we’re all going to be disconnected.

Think of the lowest common denominator, folks, I leave Linux distribution torrents and Libre Office torrents running 24 / 7 just to support those around the world with diminished resources, and I may set up a server just to re-torrent public domain intellectual property of every type, books, music, movies, daily news aggregation – how else are we going to unite the world as inclusive and egalitarian?

On topic, I use Adobe Acrobat Pro to [ Create PDF ] [ From Web Page ], and Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Pro has no equivalent feature, strike- … I dunno, how many strikes is it now, way more than strike-three.

By the way, Adobe Acrobat Pro creates a PDF page from [ SoftwareOnSale. com ] for off-line viewing just fine, [ AppNee. com ] just offers “… Please disable your adblock and script blockers to view this page …”, their loss.

Soft-Xpansion’s loss, too, in not offering … I dunno, should I rip out a licensed Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor just to install a trial version of Soft-Expansion Perfect PDF 10 Premium to see if it offers the missing competitive features and benefits of even 10-year previous Adobe Acrobat Pro?

Should I, Soft-Xpansion – what say?

So those are some one-trick-pony features, such as the ability to create a PDF by browsing a web site, and as I click on links in the PDF document under construction, I can add page after page to the current PDF, a wonderful resource for off-line reading, especially of blah-blah-blogs and technical reference presentations.

These are just tools, folks, not some precious holy magic that requires contortionary licensing.

And just as we use a screwdriver to open a can of paint, even though the instructions for using a screwdriver explain rotating screws in and out, not opening cans of paint,

… all of our software tools can be used for something way beyond the imagination of the original programmer,

… or maybe we’re just finding out what the original programmers used their own programs for,

… but their marketing department slapped a whole different presentation on top,

… maybe some programmers working on Adobe Acrobat Pro had a love affair with [ BlueSquirrel. com ] Grab-A-Site ( remember that ? ), and saw that it was equivalently easy to do that to build a PDF, to collect a web page, an entire web site, an entire browsing experience across any number of web pages, as a PDF, and a PDF is actually a better resource in some ways for off-line viewing.

Soft-Xpansion’s loss.

Has anyone yet got an Soft-Expansion advantage to share?
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Thanks, [@Gary] … I think.

No, Soft-Xpansion does not identify a computer associated with a license or email, that was the challenge, I resolved that at least once, and got Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor working on screen, at least once, in spite of Soft-Xpansion’s inabilities to have that happen immediately on first installation attempt.

Soft-Xpansion is the ONLY impediment to successful installation, as testified to by the direct experience of myself and others.

“… it just won’t work …” in a little bit of context: “… I told folks to rip it out instead of TRYING to get it to work, because it does install, it just won’t work, not even in trial mode, so why bother, especially when the vendor doesn’t care, as exhibited in their “take it off the discussion thread and email us instead” – no, I only do things in public on the discussion board in plain and inclusive view of everyone else, that’s what a discussion board is for …” … correct, Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor just won’t work, not even in trial mode, if it cannot phone home during installation, full sentence, all phrases, in context

Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor exported a PDF to a text tile, a text file, let me repeat, a text file, and it had spaces between words such that they appeared in the text tile, text file, text file ( did I say “text file” ) as tab-delimited, there was just enough white space after each word to have them line up in columns, here’s a snippet:

diseases.	Within	your	sea	of	white	blood	cells	is	a	match	for	virtually	any
pathogen	that	infects	you,	and	a	big	key	to	your	health	involves	the	speed	with
which	the	right	T	cell	and	B	cell	can	make	contact	with	the	disease,	bind	to	it,
and	then	manufacturer	tens	of	thousands	of	copies	of	the	precise	defender	to
49 
wipe	out	the	offenders.
Let’s	say	it’s	flu	season.	You’re	on	an	airplane	or	a	bus,	and	someone	coughs.
You’re	in	your	cubicle	at	work.	You’re	a	full	five	feet	away	from	the	infected
person.	Not	far	enough,	says	the	Centers	for	Disease	Control	and	Prevention
(CDC),	which	puts	the	flu’s	range	of	travel	by	sneeze	or	cough	at	six	feet.	Or
you	can	get	flu	on	your	skin	through	a	touch	on	a	handrail	that	a	carrier	has
touched	not	long	before.	A	kiss,	a	hug,	a	handshake.	You	wipe	your	nose,	and
now	the	virus	has	a	warm	and	comfy	place	to	reproduce.
Almost	immediately,	the	immune	system	picks	up	an	intruder,	but	at	this
point	in	the	scientific	journey—in	the	chronology	of	discovery—immunology
didn’t	really	understand	what	first	contact	looked	like.	That	came	later.
A	T	cell,	central	to	our	elegant	defense.	(NIAID/NIH)
So,	back	to	the	flu	and	you,	and	T	cells	and	B	cells.	When	you	are	first
infected,	your	body	generates	a	kind	of	generic	response.	It	is	during	this	period 50 
that	your	elegant	defense	is	waiting	for	your	T	cells	and	B	cells	to	generate	a
powerful	response.	The	delay	can	take	five	to	seven	days.	That	is	because	the
right	B	cell	and	T	cell,	with	the	right	antibody	or	receptor,	must	be	contacted,	or
make	contact	with	the	bug,	fit	lock	into	key,	and	begin	generating	defenders.
Many	times,	then,	the	best	case	is	that	you’re	sick	for	a	few	days	while	this
immune	response	kicks	in.	Again,	this	doesn’t	mean	you’re	without	defenses
until	that	point,	but	it	means	you’re	without	precision	defenses,	like	a	T	cell	or	a

A text file is a text file is a text file is a text file.

Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor apparently saw each word as a separate item to be delimited, and was, as I say, unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file, no sophisticated intelligence, and as I wrote, I could fix it by opening it in Word-equivalent and run a series of fixes such as search and replace all multiple spaces with single spaces … because Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor is unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file.

Note the page numbers 49 and 50 in the middle of sentences, doh … because Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor is unable to recognize the human-readable meaning of the content of the PDF file.

I appreciate that some folks can’t use web search resources to successfully find some things, such as Free Ashampoo PDF Pro v1.11, not pirated, not cracked, fully licensed, with a license direct from Ashampoo, LMGTFY let me Google that for you:
[ https :// winningpc. com/product/ashampoo-pdf-pro-license-key-free/ ] … its a v1 giveaway pitch with a 57% OFF Ashampoo PDF Pro 2 Coupon Code, such official teaser promotions happen all the time.

Regarding hardware computer licensing, you’ve not identified any other program that requires the vendor to authorize installation on a particular computer, nor that depends on the vendor to give permission to reauthorize any subsequent installation – even Windows works in trial mode immediately after installation anywhere, and we can reinstall it again and again.

HD Sentinel installs anywhere without prior or coordinated permission from the vendor, as many times as we want, even on computers not tethered to the Internet, and immediately works in trial mode or free mode, no problem.

I haven’t seen hardware licensing since, I dunno, IBM mainframes.
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[@Gary], I’m not sure what problems you are trying to solve with your share.

– No, we did not have Zip file problems,
– no, the software could not phone home,
– no, it misbehaved on multiple computers,
– no, the software does not work in trial mode,
– no, the vendor did not reply to email contemporaneously with the installation,
– no, the vendor has not replied to some emails ever ( “yet” ),
– no, the vendor’s email does not identify which computer is authorized,
– no, the software has no search function,
– no, the software exported sentences and paragraphs to tab-delimited separate words in a text file,
– no, the software does not have features or benefits that are equal to, let alone superior to, alternatives.

Your post neither addressed nor fixed any of that.

Nor do I see any report from you of your own personal experience of Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor.

I’d say thanks for exploring this and sharing, but I do not see that you explored or shared about the SOS offer in these threads

Ashraf asks of us to “… Be sure to leave a nice comment if you like this offer or ask for help if you have any trouble …”.

Nice?

In a Teutonic sort of way ( SWIDT? ), accuracy is “nice” by my standards, anything less than accuracy is not nice at all.

Along the lines of “… it is not a good customer who does not tell if their soup is cold …”

That is, in order for a vendor to listen to their customers, their customer first has to speak up.

So, um … thanks for the opportunity to accurately reiterate what a crappy set of vendor policies and software the SOS offer exposed us to?

Look, Audials also got head-banging crappy reviews when first presented here, and in response, they got their act together, and Audials has made their offering much better, incorporating much of our advice and preferences, even though Audials is still weird, and awkward, but it has grown to be much, much better, more reliable, fully functional within itself, all dependencies in their own directories, even auto-recovering from lock-up if we are patient after overloading our system with an inordinately large download queue, kudos to Audials for stepping up to face and overcome the challenges we presented to them.

Same with Google Picasa, which went from proprietary uselessness, to universal value ( well, before Google dropped all pC projects except their browser, and dedicated themselves to phone$ )

Soft-Xpansion may do the same over the next few years, but they gotta get started.

I’m offering a kick-start.

A kick-in-the-butt-start, to be sure, but a kick-start nonetheless.

I wish Soft-Xpansion all the success in the world, and more power to them.

If I didn’t care, I would not have written a word.
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[@Peter Blaise]

>”Soft-Xpansion Perfect PDF 9 Editor exported a PDF to a text tile, a text file, let me repeat, a text file, and it had spaces between words such that they appeared in the text tile, text file, text file ( did I say “text file” ) as tab-delimited, there was just enough white space after each word to have them line up in columns, …”

What encoding did you export the PDF file as?